Laugh if you must, as I sometimes chuckle do when using these cheap skate cards, but these homemade cards truly do come in handy.Lacking any legitimate hockey cards for Washington's Matt Hendricks and DJ King, all it took was five minutes of seat time in front of my computer and about 45 seconds of combined hounding time to add these to the collection.
There's a bit of a bonus, too. If memory serves me correct, and that's always a legitimate question at my ever-advancing age, these could be the first autographs I've received from either Capitals player.
Granted, neither is a household name, but in the interest in building a diverse collection, it's another two names crossed off of the so-called want list.
Hendricks is awesome to watch play and a nice guy in person, we miss him in CO.
ReplyDeleteYour blog post made me wonder.....do you keep a checklist of sorts when it comes to the autographs you have acquired?
ReplyDeleteIf so, what method(s) do you use?
We keep a checklist only for the pucks. I suppose we should start one for sticks and other memorabilia, as that would be easy as they're either in the display case or in The Vault.
ReplyDeleteAs for cards, we're too far gone to try to do that. All are in binders, and we have 18 of those, in different sizes. Some are for specific teams, others are for brands like Heroes and Propsects or AHL specialty sets.
A conservative estimate, we have between 4,750-5,000 cards.
All told, I'd say we're at or above 7,500 hockey autographs.